Want to help S.A./Houston-based Black Snake Studios make a comic?

I have a place in my heart for aspiring comic book companies, especially when they aspire here in San Antonio and Texas. To that end, S.A./Houston-based Black Snake Studios is working on a comic called “RIP” and seeks help to make it happen.

Here’s how BSS describes “RIP”:

Two years ago he lost everything that he had ever loved. The vampires took her from him and he wants her back. It is their unusual appetite and uncontrollable cravings that set them apart from the ones that they hunt, but to the humans, they look somewhat normal. He knows better. With the help of high tech friend Chet and the curiously flawless and sexy Anaya, RIP will not stop until he gets his wife back, along with all of the missing. However, after RIP finds out that local doctors and scientists have become a few of the many that were taken, he begins to fear for the purity of the entire human race. With the motivation and power to kill any vampire that stands in his way, and the knowledge of exactly how to do it, RIP becomes an unstoppable force that not even the many faces of immortality can match.

“We have a goal of $1,000 and we have a lot of really cool incentives for people who pledge towards this goal,” says Joseph Pais of BSS via e-mail. “Anything you can do to help us would be fantastic and very much appreciated.”

Pais says the money will go to creative talent on the comic as well as printing and promotion costs. As for incentives, BSS promises signed copies, original artwork, comic guest spots for backers and more.